ISSUE #74 \__\__\___TEMPO DISPATCH  ___/__/__/ Feb 5, 2003          Monthly Newsletter / DRUM SET LESSONS   Copyright Bill Powelson 2003 all rights reserved. ________________'IT'S ALL ABOUT DRUMS'______________ * Tips * Tricks * Hints * F*r*e*e Drumset-Lessons * __________NOW more than 13,500+ SUBSCRIBERS__________ IN THIS ISSUE . . . (TABLE OF CONTENTS . . .) (Article/lesson) 1. Mastering Bass-Drum Techniques without drums. 2. PERFECT TIMING?  It's essential to your success.    What's a Groove Guide?    Don't know?  (Click here) http://www.studydrums.com/z.html 3. Humor: George Carlin strikes again. 4. Play the new DRUMMERS TRIVIA GAME. *  NEW:     ***  CHAT ABOUT DRUMS ***    ONLINE CHAT, FOR DRUMMERS ONLY:    E-mail a drummer friend and invite them for an online chat. http://pub9.bravenet.com/chat/show.php?usernum=762461667cpv=1 __________________________________ |____MASTERING BD TECHNIQUES______|      Repeated movements will develop coordination. It isn't necessary to sit behind a drum set to develop your chops.      I've said this before, but it's worth repeating.      Jam with recordings. Beat on anything in sight . . . but remember to pat the feet on the floor as you jam.  Play as though you are behind a drum set, even if you are sitting behind your desk.     The bass drum foot is much more important than the hi-hat foot, but it's best to try to develop both feet in an equal way, if possible.      Don't neglect the feet . . . but, at the same time . . . don't worry too much if they aren't doing  everything you tell them to do.  We ALL have trouble with the feet, in the beginning.       For beginning students, the feet will be a little contrary. Continued focus and effort will finally bring them around.      Play and jam with recorded music every day, whether you are behind a drum set or not.      Memorize a beat pattern you want to master, then do it repeatedly while watching tv, or idly passing time at your desk at work or school.      Build your speed slowly.  It will take time and many repetitions, but persistent effort will pay off.      You can become an awesome drummer without owning a drumset.  All you'll need is an active imagination.      Here's a stretching exercise I've sometimes used to build and flex the muscles needed to promote faster action with the feet. Exercise #1:      This is good for both feet . . .      Sit with both feet flat on the floor.      Keep the heels down, but raise the toes into that air. Push the envelope. Raise the toes as high as possible while keeping both heels in contact with the floor.      Hold the toes of both feet as high as you can, and as long as you can.  It should hurt a little or you may not raising the toes high enough.  Raise them higher and higher until it hurts, then hold that position as long as you can.      Next, stretch the muscles the other way . . .      Point the toes towards the floor and raise the heels.      Repeat this process, several times. Exercise #2:      Practice single stroke rolls (RLRL) with the feet. Strive to build this roll so that it will nearly match the speeds of the hands.      It is also good to practice double-strokes (RRLL) and paradiddles (RLRR LRLL) this same way.      Most students will quickly gain amazing power and strength with all bass drum techniques, by practicing these exercises several times a day, every day.      It'll also help to master bass syncs too, but that's another lesson. It has already been written, and it's in the course.  See EM #3 at the password site.   Scroll past the Fatback beats, then memorize all the bass-sync exercises in the middle of the page.  They're guaranteed to take your bass drum techniques to unprecedented levels. .......................................................      Here online, many of you may find it easy to absorb SEVERAL lessons per week, while others may need several weeks on each lesson!       That's the advantage of online lessons!      The (very low) $49 cost is the same for EVERYONE. DO THIS . . .      Tally the amount of money you'll spend yearly with a private instructor . . . then compare that cost to the (current) $49.00 you'll spend (ONE TIME), here. ........................................................ NOTE:      Not all the lessons are F*r*e*e.  Many of the best hidden lessons do not appear at the public-site at all. 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FIND OUT ABOUT THE TONGUE-DRUM HERE! http://www.studydrums.com/tngdrm01.html _________________________________ |_____AD SPACE AVAILABLE ________| This ad-space is available.  Reach 13,500+ avid drum-buffs per month, with your music-related ad. INQUIRE:  drums01@att.net _________________________________ |___________HUMOR? ______________|    Here's a smile or two for you . . . George Carlin Strikes Again Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little  bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards:  NAIVE Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing-section in a swimming pool? OK...  so if the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the "Jags" and the  Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the "Bucs", what does that make the Tennessee Titans ? If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea . . . does that mean that one enjoys  it? There are three religious truths: 1.  Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of  the Christian  faith. 3.  Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store.  1.  If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does  he become disoriented? 2.  If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland  called Holes? 3.  Why do we say something is out of whack?  What's a whack? 4.  Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? 5.  If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? 6.  If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? 7.  When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts" and you put your two-cents in .  .  .  what happens to the other penny? 8.  Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? 9.  Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren't they just stale  bread to begin with? 10.  When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? 11.  Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who  drives a race car not called a racist? 12. Why are a wise-man and a wise-guy opposites? 13. Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? 14. Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one? 15. "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language.  Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? 16.  If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow  that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed? 17.  If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP? 18.  Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks? 19.  What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? 20.  I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . . they're cramming for their final exam. 21.  I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? 22.  Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office?  What are we supposed to do, write to them?  Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver  the mail? 23.  If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are 'the others' here for? 24.  You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. 25.  No one ever says, "It's only a game" when their team is winning. 26.  Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag? 27.  Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts. 28.  If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose? 29. Whatever happened to Preparations A through G? Thanks to George Carlin for the humor, and Jim Casey for sending these thoughts . . . vermontdrums.com ....................................... 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